Valley Central High School - Viking Log Yearbook (Montgomery, NY)

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fBeloWj The tennis season put the girls' team on the top of the Orange County League. Showing her Winning form, Patty Murphy leans into her serve. 'eww x - ' 1 x M., ,WW ..,,.V...W.M.Am..s........-.-. .. , , .,,,.i,, -, ,-N-'vu QAbovel One of the areas Coach Goldberg stressed was concentration and determination. Marino Ioburi meets both demands as she returns a forehand shot. fRightj The members of the Girls Tennis Team are: ffrontj Patty Murphy, Svetlana Iahari, Lynn Knup, Linda Brown, Paula Bastiano, Marina Iabari, Sally Majeski, Holly Gildersleeve, fhackj Terry Wegniak, Ianet Satkaowski, Ianice VanWyck, lean VanWyCk, Sue Engels, Ginger Brent, Lisa Decker, Claudia Dziedzic, Ann McDermott, Coach Mary Goldberg. 50 SPORTS U.eftj In order to win games and obtain respectable standing in the league, it is necessary to have good game plans. Members of the IV team Bill McClearn 1301, Pete Cocks f76J, and Bob Conroy 1851 -- organize their next course of action. News

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Today it isa 1ock's sport ny jock will tell you: football is the glory sport - not soccer. From start to finish, grid-iron action domi- nates the season in every aspect. The grandstand, the write-ups, the con- cession stand, the play-by-play, the spectator buses, the cheerleaders, the crowds, and the recognition given to the players. Despite its anonymity, some devote hours of discipline to soccer. Why? Varsity coach Ernie Pettine offered these why-nots concerning his high school years: If you went out for soccer and not football, you were an fBelowj VC and Burke played match their skills to a 3-3 tie. Grunt Boyd waits for a header. 'Q 'sf f I un.. Ii I outcast. It was football or nothing. He attributed the modified program credit for bringing more athletes out for soccer, and also believed that more kids are interested fin soccerj because it's not as physical as foot- ball. Quadrupla-captain Larry Sutter agrees. I didn't relish the fact of get- ting knocked over by a guy three times the size of me, he joked. An- other captain, Mike McComb, chose soccer because I wasn't old enough to join football in seventh grade. I stuck with it because in eighth grade I wasn't big enough to go out for foot- ball. Physical size, or lack of it, wasn't the only reason for which these ath- letes play soccer. Captain Eric Bartle commented, I joined in seventh grade to get in shape for hoop. I liked it, so I kept goin'. jerry Ieltsch, a native of Belgium, inherited the desire to play from his country and family. The same could be said for leading team scorer Todd McCormick, who started ax - 'a....w'k i playing the sport in eighth grade be- cause of my brother. Not everybody had a reason for de- voting months to the sport, however. john Zawistowski started playing for the heck of it, while Pete Cocks re- marked, C'mon, my father's Pele . . . Season after season, soccer has sur- vived in the shadows of football. There are still no grandstands pouring cheers onto the field, but the players who have rejected the football or nothing concept for any one of a thousand reasons remain. Soon, how- ever, boys who chose to compete in soccer won't have to justify their ac- tions or give their reasons. junior Mike Megginson, may have taken a step in that direction when he pro- nounced, I joined soccer because I'm a jock! fLeftj In all countries except the U.S. football refers to what we call soccer. The foreign name fits the sport as Scott Kramer demonstrates. , BoYs vARs1TY SOCCER s 'wi- . . , E' , sw- .J -. . 1 egg Sgagf , 1 44 L . 5 '..,-121-ff. it . xr-..Rf,f'Z ir-wt-'K T ,u . Tift 'A ---- .ak p-Qual. I A 3 Avjvfg-eg.,-..mg,Ai:.z. L-,,,-has-Egg-f '.-. -. .frm LJ.. -fpwigg-. 5. ,Qc ja.: . ae ..',,K.., ipji.-, ,Qs , I ,, ,..t..f If-1,1-4, tf 1... M L - - - fs - ' Q rf it T . . v 72 fAbovel The members of the Boys Varsity Soccer Team are: ffrontj Harry Mills, Herb Geiger, Scott Pettine, Andy Lohman, Larry Sutter, Mike McComb, Eric Bartle, Carl Darrigo, Rich Sager, Drew Lounsbury, tsecondj Debbie vi . s .. . 1 Sloboda, Tom Zawistowski, Todd McCormick, Kevin Davie, Peter Cocks, Tim Millar, Tim Coddington, Scott Kramer, tbackj Coach Ernie Pettine, Chris Navitsky, Mike Megginson, Grant Boyd, Dave Smith. SCOREBOARD 3-3 Burke tie 3-1 Monroe win 1-7 Washingtonville loss 3-1 Cornwall win 3-0 Warwick win 4-0 Burke win 2-3 Middletown loss 2-3 Monticello loss 2-3 Ellenville loss 2-5 Washingtonville loss 2-1 Cornwall win 2-0 Warwick win 4-1 Middletown win 1-0 Monticello win 4-0 Ellenville win 1-2 Monroe loss 0-1 Middletown loss Total 9wins 7losses 1tie SPORTS 49

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Tennis team Gcldberg coaches winners circle felt surprised that we won the championship because we were one of the worst teams in the league until recently, admitted lean VanWyck. lean was surprised, everybody was surprised. And pleased. With their de- termination, the girls were able to squeak by the stronger teams to win the division. With the division win behind them, came Terry Wegniak's and Ianet Sat- kowski's most important match of the season. The team was vying for the championship against Middletown. After six matches, both teams were tied. Terry and Ianet were the last doubles to complete their match, and both were conscious that theirs was the decider. When the match was completed, Terry and Ianet joined the winner's circle, and the VC tennis team won the championship. After three years, Coach Goldberg had the championship team she hoped for. Since many of the players will be returning for next year's season, she hopes to have one again . . . soon. When Mrs. Mary Goldberg first de- cided to coach Girls Varsity Tennis, she set a goal that she would have a championship team in three years. In her third year of coaching, with hard work and determination, Coach Gold- gerg led her team to the Orange Coun- ty Championship in the fall of 1978. The girls started their season in September hoping to have a good team. They had no delusions: they knew it would be a long, hard road to winning the title. Most of the girls were returning from last year's team. People like Ian VanWyck, her sister lean, Sue Engels, Terry Wegniak, and Ianet Satkowski were all expected to do well whether they played singles or doubles. As it turned out, Ian VanWyck finished sec- ond in the county and also had the chance to play in the sectionals. Terry Wegniak and doubles partner Ian Sat- kowski also competed in the section- als. In past years the girls' tennis team has not been marked as a winner. QAboveJ The members of the Iunior Varsity Football Team are: tfrontj Sherry Clark, Sandy Smith, Donna McMann, fsecondj Bob Conroy, Iohn Iessup, Mike Mondello, Chad Tompkins, Iim Goddard, Rich Vano, Tim Crowley, Pete McComb, Bill Iackson, tthirdj Coach Robert Zifchuck, Mark Bond. Keith Winchell, jeff Miller, Ieff Vogt, Iohn Lyrell, Eric Scott, Guy Rose, fbackj Greg Stellwag, Mike Lemin, Darnell McClearn, Walter Clark, Bill McClearn, Todd Dubois, Kyle Tucci, Bob Krepplin, Ioe Finn, Steve Brescia, Coach john Vogt. gurls to top Some people thought that this year would be no different, and the girls knew this. As Ian VanWyck said, No- body thought we would win because there has never been a girls' cham- pionship tennis team here. But we proved to them we could. The girls had many tough matches. Schools like Port Iervis, Middletown, and Highland Falls returned with strong teams. Although the girls acknowledged what the skeptical thought, they didn't let it bother them. Instead, they con- centrated on playing their best. BOYS IV FOOTBALL SCOREBOARD 8-16 Middletown loss 6-7 Minisink loss 22-21 Goshen win 8-23 Washingtonville loss 8-33 Port Iervis loss 8-34 Monroe loss 11-8 Warwick win forfeit by O'Neill win 7-0 Cornwall win 33-0 Saugerties win Total 5 wins 5 losses GIRLS TENNIS SCOREBOARD 4-3 Port Iervis win 5-2 Ellenville win 4-3 Minisink win 5-2 Monticello win 5-2 Goshen win 7-0 Minisink win 2-5 Middletown loss 2-5 Monroe loss 4-3 O'Neill win 4-3 Washingtonville win 4-3 Ellenville win 5-2 Port Iervis win 6-1 O'Neill win Total 11 wins Zlosses SPORTS 51